Cover -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CONSERVATIVE THOUGHT -- The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek (1944) -- Ideas Have Consequences, Richard M. Weaver (1948) -- Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, Albert Jay Nock (1943) -- God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom," William F. Buckley Jr. (1951) -- The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Santayana, Russell Kirk (1953) -- In Defense of Freedom: A Conservative Credo, Frank S. Meyer (1962) -- The Conscience of a Conservative, Barry Goldwater (1960) -- The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom, Robert Nisbet (1953) -- Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan That Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America, ed. Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson (2001) -- Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea, Irving Kristol (1995) -- The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945, George H. Nash (1976) -- The March of Freedom: Modern Classics in Conservative Thought, ed. and with commentaries by Edwin J. Feulner (2003) -- Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, Mark R. Levin (2009) -- We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future, Matthew Spalding (2009) -- ECONOMICS -- Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics, Henry Hazlitt (1946) -- Liberalism: A Socio-Economic Exposition, Ludwig von Mises (1978 edition) -- Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman (1962) -- FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression, Jim Powell (2003) -- A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market, Wilhelm Roepke (1960) -- Ethnic America: A History, Thomas Sowell (1981) -- Wealth and Poverty, George Gilder (1981) -- The Seven Fat Years: And How To Do It Again, Robert L. Bartley (1992).

The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, Hernando de Soto (2000) -- The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, Michael Novak (1982) -- STATESMANSHIP -- George Washington: The Indispensable Man, James Thomas Flexner (1974) -- Abraham Lincoln: A Biography, Benjamin P. Thomas (1952) -- Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman, Alonzo L. Hamby (1995) -- Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power, Lou Cannon (2003) -- With Reagan: The Inside Story, Edwin Meese III (1992) -- Churchill: A Life, Martin Gilbert (1991) -- Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution, Lee Edwards (1995) -- American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964, William Manchester (1978) -- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1997) -- RELIGION -- Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis (1943) -- Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton (1908) -- Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther, Roland H. Bainton (1950) -- The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity, Mark A. Noll (2002) -- Protestant-Catholic-Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology, Will Herberg (1955) -- The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America, Richard John Neuhaus (1984) -- A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural, Peter L. Berger (1969) -- The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror, Stephen Schwartz (2002) -- Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II, George Weigel (1999) -- AMERICAN HISTORY -- The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, Edmund S. Morgan (1956) -- Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, David Hackett Fischer (1989) -- The Roots of American Order, Russell Kirk (1974) -- The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment, Carl J. Richard (1994).

Constitutionalism: Ancient and Modern, Charles Howard McIlwain (1947) -- Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution, Forrest McDonald (1985) -- Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787, Catherine Drinker Bowen (1966) -- The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, ed. Matthew Spalding and David Forte (2005) -- Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Harry V. Jaffa (1959) -- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, James M. McPherson (1988) -- America: The Last Best Hope, Volume I: From the Age of Discovery to a World at War and America: The Last Best Hope, Volume II: From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom, William J. Bennett (2006 and 2007) -- The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order 1964-1980 and The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, Steven F. Hayward (2001 and 2009) -- Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan, Michael Barone (1990) -- TOTALITARIANISM -- Communism: A History, Richard Pipes (2001) -- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, William L. Shirer (1960) -- The God That Failed, André Gide, Richard Wright, Ignazio Silone, Stephen Spender, Arthur Koestler, Louis Fischer (1950) -- Witness, Whittaker Chambers (1952) -- The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Robert Conquest (1968) -- The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1973) -- The Captive Mind, Czeslaw Milosz (1953) -- Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism, James Burnham (1964) -- To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter, Vladimir Bukovsky (1978) -- Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba 1928-1978, Paul Hollander (1981).

The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Stéphane Courtois et al. (1999) -- WORLD HISTORY -- Europe: A History, Norman Davies (1996) -- Dynamics of World History, Christopher Dawson (2002) -- The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments, Gertrude Himmelfarb (2004) -- From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present, Jacques Barzun (2000) -- Civilization on Trial, Arnold J. Toynbee (1948) -- The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830, Paul Johnson (1991) -- The Second World War, Volume I: The Gathering Storm, Winston S. Churchill (1948) -- WORLD POLITICS -- The Cold War: A New History, John Lewis Gaddis (2005) -- Dictatorships and Double Standards: Rationalism and Reason in Politics, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1982) -- Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, Margaret Thatcher (2002) -- Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order, Robert Kagan (2003) -- What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response, Bernard Lewis (2002) -- The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel P. Huntington (1996) -- Liberty's Best Hope: American Leadership for the 21st Century, Kim R. Holmes (2008) -- PUBLIC POLICY -- Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980, Charles Murray (1984) -- The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass, Myron Magnet (1993) -- Thinking About Crime, James Q. Wilson (1975) -- To Empower People: From State to Civil Society, Peter L. Berger and Richard John Neuhaus (1996) -- Mandate for Leadership: Policy Management in a Conservative Administration, ed. Charles Heatherly (1981) -- Statecraft as Soulcraft: What Government Does, George F. Will (1983) -- The Tragedy of American Compassion, Marvin Olasky (1992).

Getting America Right: The True Conservative Values Our Nation Needs Today, Edwin J. Feulner and Doug Wilson (2006) -- POLITICAL CULTURE -- The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom (1987) -- The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law, Robert H. Bork (1990) -- Liberal Parents, Radical Children, Midge Decter (1975) -- Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women, Christina Hoff Sommers (1994) -- The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis, Robert P. George (2001) -- UNCONVENTIONAL THOUGHT -- Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography, William F. Buckley Jr. (2004) -- Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government, P. J. O'Rourke (1991) -- Making It, Norman Podhoretz (1967) -- Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey, David Horowitz (1997) -- Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus, Dinesh D'Souza (1991) -- White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era, Shelby Steele (2006) -- LITERATURE -- 1984, George Orwell (1948) -- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand (1957) -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1962) -- Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather (1927) -- Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler (1941) -- Midcentury, John Dos Passos (1961) -- Sword of Honour: The Final Version of the Novels, Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, The End of the Battle, Evelyn Waugh (1962) -- Advise and Consent: A Novel of Washington Politics, Allen Drury (1959) -- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (1952) -- The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (1987) -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- BOOKS LISTED BY TITLE -- BOOKS LISTED BY AUTHOR.